Bound to get there

“I’ll run away. If I work for my money I ought to have it. Mr. Steele can get a new boy. I won’t work any longer and get nothing for it.”

Frank Alden’s face was resolute and set as he announced his bold intention to rebel against the tyranny of a cruel stepfather. His brother Will’s face was fairly white with fear...

Nick Collins was never so dismayed and startled in his life as when he found himself rudely seized by the arm outside of the cabin of Captain Eccles, detected in the act of misc...

“I guess nobody has accused you but yourself, and I don’t say it’s a guilty conscience at work. You heard the stories flying around last night; you got frightened, and you beat...

For that, Nick had insisted, must be their first thought, and even amid the enjoyable bustle of the train, the novelty of swift travel, and the rosy promise of the future he fou...

They had awakened bright and refreshed from their sleep, and Nick had gone to a neighboring store and bought some things for breakfast, of which all partook heartily. As they at...

The last few days of Nick Collins’ life had been full of surprises, but this last one was too bewildering to realize readily. He had really expected no reward for what he had do...

It was particularly pale--a white, anxious face, careworn and sad, but eager and excited just now, in keeping with the wild, staring expression of the restless eyes, which shone...

“Well, I was not the person he expected to see, probably, but he eyed me closely. The minute that he saw the package he seemed to be satisfied that he had found out what he had...

The money affair had unsettled Frank, but Nick resolutely insisted that it was an outside issue that could have but one result--its restoration to its rightful owner, and he adv...

Nick recognized the admiral readily, as much by his quick movements and bent form as from a memory of his snow-white beard and keen, penetrating eyes as revealed in the street-l...

Nick Collins’ first impulse was to rush from his place of concealment and call the police. But he did not do so, probably because a desire to see what Vail and Loucks would do h...

It was Frank Alden who asked the question, and its anxious tone was caused by Nick’s long, woebegone face. He had just appeared at the old house, which was still the home of the...

Nick sprang from his covert the moment that the door closed. He realized in a flash that the bookkeeper had made his final visit to the vault, had put his books away for the nig...

At the name of the bold captain, Vail paled and Loucks looked alarmed, for they both recognized it as that of the man whom Admiral Semmes had mentioned as the partial legatee of...

It was two days after Nick’s escape from the vault and the clutches of Loucks and the broker. Nick, Captain Eccles, Frank, and Will were now occupants of an apartment in a board...

Captain Eccles had not seen him about the ship, but he supposed that he was with Frank and Will in the forecastle, and Frank and Will, not seeing him, took it for granted that h...

At the first step in what fate had made the main purpose of his life--the successful carrying out of his father’s project, and the securing of Admiral Semmes’ rights--the lad ha...

Within an hour they set sail. The skipper proved to be an active, intelligent man, and fell into the spirit of the undertaking. He crowded on all the sail his little ship could...

“I guess that’s right, captain,” was Admiral Eccles’ quiet comment when Dartmoor had finished his yarn. “You always were able to do your share of eating, even on ordinary occasi...

“Once abeam of Mountain Island set sail due west. There are several clusters of rocks here that are down on the chart. These you will know as the Archipelago. Directly south thi...

Save for the tropical tempest that descended, the experience passed through that night was not a new one to Nick Collins. He had known what it was to live through dreary hours o...

Until that moment Captain Eccles and Admiral Semmes had waited, with ever-increasing fear, for the return of the yawl and the three boys. Captain Eccles reproached himself bitte...

They clung to a broken timber of the yawl and were driven to land about a mile farther down the beach than the breakers had carried Nick. There, giving up their companion as dro...

There was no doubt about that, and amid visions of the great wealth they had come here to secure everybody forgot the disasters passed through and the discomforts of the present...

The agent named a price, subject to the approval of the owners. For an hour telegrams flew back and forth across the continent. Before night Captain Eccles had turned some of th...